Jails and Prisons

PITTSBURGH (AP) — An inmate serving a life sentence at a western Pennsylvania correctional facility and his fiancée are suing the prison superintendent and a county official, saying procedural issues are illegally keeping them from getting married. Kevin Davis, 57, is housed at the State Correctional Institution at Fayette for a murder he committed in Philadelphia in the 1970s. He got engaged to Norma Scott in 2013. They've known each other for 40 years. Davis is suing the prison's superintendent and Scott is suing the Fayette County register of wills in companion lawsuits filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh, the American Civil Liberties Union said. ...

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